Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [06 February, 2017]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Monday, February 06, 2017

PUNCH:

• Cameroon grab fifth African title
  
  
• Soyinka knocks police for plotting to scuttle anti-FG protest
  
  
• PDP asks Buhari to declare health status as President extends vacation
  
  
• DSS officials took Calabar teachers’ valuables after attack – Lawyer
  
  
• Camerooonian B'Haram terrorist, four others surrender
  
  
• Workers stuck in Lagos underground tank
  
  
• Imo hasn't gained from Okorocha's position in APC – Ihedioha
  
  
• Umahi seeks FG's intervention in Ebonyi, C'River boundary clashes
  
  
• FRSC arrests 186 Edo motorists over speed device
  
  
• Ekiti assembly threat to arrest Fayemi a joke – APC
  
  
• Kogi to engage 100, 000 farmers
  
  
• Ogun recruits 1, 007 workers
  
  
• Immigration rescues 65 traffic victims in C'River
  
  
• Five years after, girl without anus finds support
  
  
• Customer steals two-month-old baby in Lagos market
  
  
• I became a robber to secure my siblings’ future – Suspect
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Buhari extends vacation after UK doctors’ advice
  
  
• 2Baba cancels anti-govt protest
  
  
• Okowa, Uduaghan, others visit Ibori
  
  
• Police shouldn’t abridge Nigerians’ right to protest, says Soyinka
  
  
• Showdown over ’likely’ fuel price hike looms
  
  
• Army opens operation base in Kaduna
  
  
• MD: NDDC owes N1.2tn
  
  
• Olanusi to Mimiko: recognise new Speaker
  
  
• CBN sells N400b T-Bills to mop up liquidity
  
  
• Naira exchanges at N497 to dollar
  
  
• Delta inaugurates 22 road projects
  
  
• Driver pushes colleague into moving vehicle
  
  
• NULGE plans protest over autonomy
  
  
• Laundryman pleads guilty to kidnapping girl, 4
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• CJN Confirmation: Onnoghen’s Name’ll Be Sent To Senate This Week – Presidency Source
  
  
• Foreign investors bought N557bn treasury bills in 2016
  
  
• Adeboye Tasks Security Operatives On Their Safety
  
  
• Babatope, Ango Abdullahi, Fayose, Others React As Buhari Extends Medical Vacation Indefinitely
  
  
• NDDC Laments Failure To Develop N-Delta With $40bn
  
  
• NCAA Fines First Nation Airways, Pilot N33.5m For Violations
  
  
• CECP, NCPP To Deploy Four Mobile Cancer Centres Nationwide
  
  
• 2019: Obasanjo’s Call For Igbo Presidency, Insincere, Divisive – Obong Attah
  
  
• Oil & Gas, Consumer Goods Sectors Push Equity Market To Negative Territory
  
  
• Police Arrest 4 Robbery Suspects In Osun